Friday, November 8, 2024

MEET THE WHEELCHAIR USER MAKING GOOGLE MAPS MORE ACCESSIBLE

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN

In 2014, he started an online gallery of subway failures and invited other New Yorkers to contribute.

The images show Sasha Blair-Goldensohn and other wheelchair users in front of gated-off elevators, elevators with “out of service” signs, and an amputee climbing a set of stairs while a passerby helps carry his wheelchair.

 They show parents with strollers confronting the same obstacles, older women with canes holding precariously onto escalator handrails, and an incident where the New York police and fire departments had to rescue five preschoolers and their teacher from a broken elevator.

Blair-Goldensohn says the elevator there “breaks constantly.”

It’s at the same station he was headed to when the tree limb fell on him.

 

 

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